What kind of sidebar configuration are you after? Ok, but one question. The confusing this is that right now, my blog posts all show up on the page called Home, but I never created a page called Home. I guess that is a WP default or something? What you are seeing now is the default WordPress behavior. Hope this helps. How can be category pages customized in the same manner?
I need to order post based on custom fields. I have done it on homepage using your tutorial but need to do it on category pages as well? I like this process; really helpful for custom pages I will be creating. Or is it preferred to create a server subdirectory instead for all WordPress pages, and manually link to them from the home. For example:. To the best of my knowledge you should be able to do that without having to create a separate directory.
Or do you mean only the HTML content generated in the content area? WordPress has behaved that way for me in the past. Just ensure you link from your index. Just be aware of that. Same here. That works — but yes, the home link goes back to the splash page. Thanks for the hard work! Mario and Lisa, Yes. You will find that the home link will take you back to the root level, in this case index. You will need to create custom navigation to override the home link and change it to index.
Here is an example:. This will remove the standard nav and replace it with your own, custom defined version. Let me know if you have more questions. I guess I should ask this in their forum but I like your site so much I wanted to ask you.
If that makes sense? Hi Gregory, Yes. You would not find any reference on the Thesis website to that function. I have been on Twitter with Chris Pearson, the Thesis developer, and he was gracious in answering my questions. He directed me to the location of that function. As to your question on where to begin with your customization I think it depends on what your goals are. What things do you want to change? If you look at the entire scope of changes it may cause you to feel overwhelmed.
However, if you tackle each item singularly you will customize your site and learn piece, by piece. So I would suggest figuring out what you specifically want to do, break it down into specific tasks, then figure out how to complete each of those tasks.
It will, no doubt, involve a bit of html, php, and css depending on what you are after. Wondering if you can shed some more light on this.
I need to use the Thesis home page with a 3 column layout sidebar1, content, sidebar2 and the teasers option. But when a user jumps to a category and a page have a typical blog page content, sidebar1 maybe sidebar2 as well. I honest think I need a primer. Hi Alex, I would setup your homepage using the Thesis settings under the Appearance tab when you are logged in as the Administrator.
Get your sidebars, etc. Then for your categories and pages I would use the tutorial above to setup your page layout templates how you like. I learned principles of programming from taking those classes which help me now, but aside from that its hack and see what sticks. Actually, Alex explained my frustrations much better, and in your response to Alex you suggestions the following:.
Thanks for this awesome tutorial, and for the link to the Sugarrae article on hooks. I want subsequent pages to be very similar — same navigation, smaller banner across the top, fewer sidebar elements.
Where do I get the code? Do I copy it from the various templates in the WordPress editor? Hi Julie, Yes, you do get the source code from other files that are setup how you like combined with the customizations that you want. You also need to identify the page you want to have this custom template applied to and develop the right logic so it happens how you want it to.
You asked where to find source code that is being used for the pages. You can find it in here. When I try to find a page ID by hovering…over the link to edit the page when viewing a page list within the admin area of WordPress. It only shows the name title of the page. Question 1, Is there something that has changed in WP 2. Here is a plugin to display it though, and it works well for me. Hi Paul, Thanks for the link to the plugin. Thinking about this ID issue I realized I may not have been specific enough.
If you have changed your permalink structure in the admin tools of WordPress then this would not work either as is the case on this website and the plugin would be the way to go. Hi there, This is somewhat what I have been looking for Thanks.
I would like to keep the left sidebar on all pagers. On the sub pagers only I would like to change the right sidebar to break up the cities into neighborhoods. In other words I would like any posts to be below the static Introductory. In fact I am in the process of finishing up a tutorial on multiple-sidebar-options. I should have this tutorial published within the next week. However, my goal is to create a custom template that uses a different header image than the rest of the site.
The navigation tabs would stay the same; I pretty much just want to be able to specify a certain header image for certain pages. Your tutorial seems to just include the stuff under the header and before the footer. Any advice on how to proceed? Hi Jason, Thanks for the compliment.
As is the case in many things WordPress there is more than one way to tackle what you want to do with your headers. BTW, checked out your website. So cool! I needed a reminder about escaping adulthood. Is that the website you are looking to use Thesis with? I have a query. I want to show two sidebars 3, and 4 different than the ones displayed on homepage and rest of blog. How do I go about it? I want the layout to be s3-content-s4. Hi Nicky, Thanks.
I should have the sidebar tutorial online by end-of-day Monday hopefully sooner if possible. Stay tuned. Cheers, berchman. I am using Thesis 15 and want to have custom templates for some of my pages. How can I add content within the dashboard with a page that is using a custom template?
Hi Mary, You first need to create a new page and add its content. This way the page is looking for its custom template and it is applied appropriately. This was very helpful. I am testing this on my local machine and it works like a charm. Appreciate it. Thanks for the kudos Lisa. I checked out your website.
Quite cool. I like how you are keeping it real for people. Great topics, great content. Hi again, I followed all your instructions and can get it to pull the custom template which is just a grey box for now. My intention is to be able to add all content through the dashboard and have one sidebar sidebar 1 on the right.
Any help is SO appreciated. Here is an example I use to pull the content for a homepage. Hey berchman, Thanks for the great stuff. On a May 9th comment above you said something about a tutorial you were making on creating pages with their own custom sidebars.
Have you got that done yet or can you direct me to a source where I can learn about how to have different sidebars on different pages in Thesis? George and Nicky, Was having issues with my own Thesis install and had to work those out. I should have the new sidebar tutorial up soon. Customize the Page Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo Multiple Custom Page Templates Creating New Widget Areas Widgetizing Thesis Multimedia […].
I still have a couple of questions I hope you can help me with:. I have a three column layout, with sidebars on either side of the content. For pages, would the better way be to use the custom template, or does it not really matter?
For 2 it depends. Great article. Allowed me to get some of the home page lookin just as I wanted. Thanks a lot. Hi, Thanks for this tutorial. Im still a little unclear. On my site I basically want the home page to be 2 columns and all the rest of my site which are just different categories for my blog to be 3 column as they are now.
I want to put the FCG on the home page only, in one of the columns and the other column would have the most current blog post. Thank you for any help. I am a beginner but Ive accomplished alot in my mind so far in my newbie state :.
Hi Allison, You are definitely on the right track. The hooks would replace it anyway. Take a look at the references about hooks and how you have them implemented.
Then let me know if you have any questions. Hi Marcus, Thanks for the comments. BTW you might check out my custom sidebar tutorial as well. Nice tutorial. Any advice? Hi Andrew, You can put custom php inside the hooks. It just a matter of tweaking until things work as you want. You may also want to checkout Open Hook. Hi Shane, As long as you are using standard Thesis templates the code in that tutorial only replaces the center content. This tutorial is great, but I am still having issues.
I want my header, footer, and sidebar to remain the same, but I am placing content within the content div. It displays only the header and the new content, but not the sidebars. Check out the Thesis hook sniffer to see all available hooks on your templates. If you develop your own Skins and Boxes, you may wish to declare your own hooks at some point. The most powerful way to do this is by leveraging the Thesis API hook system.
Because of this additional power, we recommend using the Thesis API hook system whenever you declare your own hooks. This is an incredibly handy tool for developers, and you can activate it with a single line of code in your master.
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Related 5. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. B ack in the old days, if you wanted to modify your theme, you had to make all of your custom HTML changes to individual template files. Then, if you ever had to upgrade or — god forbid — change your theme, you had to make those same HTML changes all over again.
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